Mass Traumatization and the Body Politic

A long-held desire of the technocratic worldview involves manipulation and control of a national and even international body politic. “This planetary consciousness,” Zbigniew Brzezinski observes, brings into closer view a single indivisible humanity united by the soft tyranny of depersonalized and omnipresent coercion. “The sense of proximity, the immediacy of suffering,” he wrote at the height of the Cold War, “the globally destructive character of modern weapons all help to stimulate an outlook that views mankind as a community.”[1] In the perceived absence of such a powerful monolithic threat, mass-mediated tragedy and terror increasingly fulfill a similarly unifying purpose and means to conjure and augment broader political projects.

More so than ever the population witnesses major catastrophic events such as the recent mass shootings in Tucson Arizona, Aurora Colorado, and Newtown Connecticut, and the Boston Marathon bombing through the two-dimensional (audio-visual) lens of major news outlets and social media platforms. A less-examined aspect of this development is how United States law enforcement and intelligence agencies operating under the Department of Homeland Security utilize such media to create and promote news of designer tragedies capable of generating a potent emotional response from the citizenry.

Moreover, the vicariously imagined trauma of such events provides a window of public acquiescence wherein government officials may shape popular sentiment and introduce restrictive legislative programs (stricter gun control in the case of Tucson, Aurora and Newtown) or forthright militarized oppression (the rescinding of posse comitatus and Fourth Amendment protections in the case of the Boston Marathon Bombing) that under normal circumstances would be rejected by the citizenry.

In addition to providing the basis for introducing unpopular policies and practices, mediated spectacles and a digitally interconnected population allow for the precise measurement of public sentiment and reaction to such crises, thereby producing information that is essential for the police state’s continued roll out and effective operation. As social scientist Armand Mattelart argues, such interconnectivity brings to fruition the long held ambition among modern social engineers to regiment the population–a pursuit that can be traced at least to the crude practices of phrenology and anthropometry.[2]

In this vein, the government’s manufacture of tragedy or terror to manipulate the mass mind is hardly a new phenomenon. For example, Operation Gladio sought to control Europe’s political landscape throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and the military and intelligence entities behind it targeted the civilian population with mass shootings and bombings to further their vision. Such projects arguably laid the groundwork for Western governments’ more recent operations including 9/11 and the London 7/7/2005 bombings used to propel the “war on terror.”[3]

With a broadly credulous public increasingly bound to the system of digital networked communication and the 24-hour corporate-driven news cycle, conveying the impression of catastrophe and terror is easily achieved. Indeed, the development and fine tuning of a uniquely-conceived apparatus in this regard has been underway for decades in the US, having come into more formal public view over the past several years.

Digital Emergency Alert System

In 2006 President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13047,[4] mandating the DHS to develop a new national emergency alert system for the digital era that would further streamline an already centralized communication network. This new framework encompasses traditional broadcast communication with newer cellular transmission and web-based platforms. The system’s design was delegated to the Federal Emergency Management Agency which in 2011 announced the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS).

In times of crisis IPAWS “provides public safety officials with an effective way to alert and warn the public about serious emergencies using the Emergency Alert System, Wireless Emergency Alerts, NOAA Weather Radio, and other public alerting systems from a single interface,” the FEMA explains. The new infrastructure “embodies a modernization and integration of the nation’s alert and warning infrastructure and will save time when time matters most, protecting life and property.”[5]

IPAWS was introduced alongside the deployment of a digital transmission architecture that was largely the initiative of the US public broadcasting industry. Indeed, behind the relentless move toward digital broadcast was an intricate and far-reaching apparatus under which the body politic may be united in temperament and purpose through crisis and catastrophe, and where a hierarchized network of information dissemination among officials and major media has made possible designer events that are perceived as real by the broader public at the lower reaches of this communicative pyramid.

In contrast to its analog forebear the digital transmission framework possesses the “dual use opportunity” envisioned by the Bush administration in 2006. John Lawson, President of the Association of Public Television Stations oversaw the $1.1 billion fundraising campaign undertaken by public broadcasting outlets for the transition to digital. His observations are especially revealing in terms of recognizing the system’s capacities and scope.

Our infrastructure is becoming the backbone of a network of networks that can deliver instant warnings to people wherever they are or whatever they’re doing. Initially this will be a government to government and government to media system.[author’s emphasis] Eventually it will be a warning system for all hazards that can reach practically all devices. You can receive some form of alert on your cell phone or your Blackberry at your kid’s soccer match, or while you’re listening to satellite or broadcast radio, or surfing the net, or watching any of the 500 channels on TV. You’ll be able to receive al—some [sic] form of emergency message almost simultaneously.

…We can send data packets—it’s called data casting. This system, because it’s broadcast, is completely bottleneck-free. It’s totally scalable. It avoids the congestion we saw here and in New York on 9/11 with phone calls and cell phone calls. It can reach a million receivers just as easily as it can reach one receiver, no matter what you’re doing …

Here’s the other point about Digital EAS [Emergency Alert System] and it speaks to the interoperability that the White House has embraced. In the pilot project these packets, these data files, these messages that originated from DHS, were sent out over the air by WETA. They were received by other networks– cellphone companies, pager companies, other broadcasters, cable companies—and retransmitted simultaneously.

Once it’s all packets you can do that—you can move this content around seamlessly. Testing that concept was one of the key goals of the DEAS project. And we established here in the national capital region proof of performance that the concept worked. We had numerous partners in the test in the commercial and television and radio industries, and we plainly established an interoperability was possible which in turn supported one of the key components of the President’s Executive Order. [author’s emphasis]

Lawson’s overview of the DEAS suggest how such a system, used in conjunction with FEMA’s IPAWS, provides the basis for a multifaceted real time orchestration of a mass casualty event that includes careful synchronization with major news media. Indeed, as discussed further below, National Public Radio is among the IPAWS nework’s 22 “dissemination groups” that includes an array of electronic broadcast outlets and consortia. [6]

As a principal element of its “interoperability” IPAWS uses a Common Alerting Protocol—”a digital format for exchanging emergency alerts that allows a consistent alert message to be disseminated simultaneously over many different communications systems.”[7] This may be used in conjunction with the Geo-Targeted Alert System, another component of IPAWS that can issue alerts and warnings targeted to specific geographic areas. Alongside “Smart 911” and “Reverse 911” technologies capable respectively of profiling individuals and distributing emergency and crisis information to networks of first responders, media outlets, hospitals, and the broader public on a “need to know” basis, the IPAWS system is an all-inclusive network for orchestrating and broadly publicizing staged or authentic crisis events.

Mediating an Integrated Capstone Event

IPAWS and Digital EAS working in coordination with broadcast and social media constitute an apparatus that can effectively control important elements of the broader public’s perceptions and sentiment. FEMA’s Integrated Capstone Event (ICE) is a comprehensive exercise involving a “multi-disciplined response” of federal, state, and local emergency responders and emergency response students reacting in unison to a common mass casualty event. According to FEMA, “Each scenario focuses on the foundations of CDP training—incident management, mass casualty response, and emergency response to a catastrophic natural disaster or terrorist act.”

“The ICE is a unique training approach in which students from the various courses work together in a single end-of-course exercise. ICE events may include students from up to ten different disciplines —ranging from law enforcement to healthcare. The students interact, communicate, and respond to a full-impact mass casualty incident.[8]

From FEMA.gov: “Left – Hospital Emergency Response Training members decontaminate a simulated survivor before allowed admittance into the hospital. The latest Integrated Capstone Event brought together four courses. Center – Role players arriving from the accident scene surge the hospital emergency department, as students from the Healthcare Leadership course care for the patients. More than 50 role players participated in this recent ICE. Right – A role player simulates the affects and injuries from a simulated explosion during the latest ICE at the CDP. Four courses merged as a scenario simulating a mass casualty event unfolded.”[9]

IPAWS and the digital transmission system are required for tiered, real time stage management of such a simulated mass casualty event that integrates dozens of state and local agencies under the coordination of FEMA to carry out the event for training purposes. Given the acute hierarchical management of such an event—one that can potentially involve close alliance with news media outlets themselves—in addition to its lifelike qualities, only minor tweaking would be required to present such an exercise to the broader public as one that is actually occurring.

To what degree are major news media potentially involved in such events? In the case of the December 14 school massacre in Newtown Connecticut law enforcement and public officials may have in some instances been informed of the event by representatives of regional and national news media on the scene prior to the alleged shooting. At a symposium held on April 22, 2013 at Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, titled Sandy Hook and Beyond, remarks from journalists alongside law enforcement and civilian officials suggest the unusual features of the event’s development. For example, Connecticut State Police Lieutenant J. Paul Vance recalled, “The first call I got about the shooting was from a member of the press referencing an ‘incident’.” Newtown’s mayor E. Patricia Llorda similarly recollected, “When I arrived at the [Sandy Hook] firehouse, the media was already there.”[10]

Tweets by National Public Radio’s Andy Carvin from Columbia University Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma’s Sandy Hook and Beyond event.[11]

Bill Leukhardt, Hartford Courant reporter and stepfather of slain Sandy Hook Elementary teacher Lauren Rousseau, likewise explained how the first notification he received was a phone call taken at his Danbury residence from the Courant newsroom. “I got a call saying there’s been some incident at a school,” Leukhardt remembers. “Here’s the address … I was assigned to go there. When I got there it was shortly after ten. I think the murders occurred about nine-thirty. By that time [there was] a large contingent of police and reporters there. It was a tumultuous scene.”[12] The distance from Danbury to Newtown is twelve miles–about 19 minutes by car. Assuming Leukhardt proceeded to Sandy Hook without delay, the Courant’s call must have come no later than 9:45AM, at which time the police had not yet secured the crime scene.

Along these lines, before police even arrived at Sandy Hook Elementary, one prominent Newtown resident oberved “the chief of police in his official car, headed to the Sandy Hook school.” Moments later the same individual receives “a news report text from the Hartford Courant, that said police were responding to incident on Dickenson Drive” where Sandy Hook Elementary is located.[13]

There are further indications that in terms of knowledge and communication, news media were on par with or ahead of most every government or law enforcement entity. For example, at 9:53 AM, which according to the official scenario was no more than ten minutes after police arrived and the shooting ceased, the Associated Press published a story, “Official with Knowledge of Connecticut School Shooting Says 27 Dead, Including 18 Children.”[14] The AP and Washington Post initially ran the story on their websites but retracted it shortly thereafter.

The available data related to both Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon bombing culled from social media platforms such as Twitter exhibit numerous inconsistencies that, taken as a whole, cannot be easily explained away through the official version of each event. Social media activity surrounding the April 15, 2013 Boston bombing similarly suggests law enforcement coordination with media outlets prior to the two bombs being detonated on Boylston Street.[15] A foremost piece of evidence–widely circulated in alternative media–is a Tweet from the Boston Globe news staff suggesting when and where the Boston Police Department would detonate explosives “as part of bomb squad activities.” Subsequent Tweets describing the scale of carnage reverberated in major media outlets, underlining the event’s severity and scale.

Further, the date stamp on many of the Tweets posted by journalists reporting from Sandy Hook on December 14 precede the purported 9:35AM time of the shooting–in some cases by several hours, and there are inconsistencies with the date stamps on such posts. The unusual publication of the detailed Associated Press story moments after the event transpired is similarly confusing.[16]

One explanation is that DHS agencies worked in coordination with news organizations to orchestrate a “Tweet timeline” that perhaps even involved appropriating news organizations and journalists’ individual Twitter accounts. A feature of the Twitter platform called “Tweet Later allows you to keep the tweets flowing even if you’re not in front of your computer or iPhone,” one observer explains.

If you know you’re going to be stuck on an airplane that doesn’t have Net access, you can timestamp a tweet that say “Stuck on an airplane that doesn’t have Net access” and have it go live at the time you’re on the plane. Alternatively, you can use Tweet Later to send yourself auto reminders … Timestamped tweets can go out at a specific time or set to go evenly throughout the day.[17]

Such a feature may also be strategically used in an event planned around certain pivot times to coordinate social media while conveying to the broader public a greater semblance of authenticity. Conversely, in the event of potential foreknowledge Tweets that are timestamped clumsily may be posted at unusual or inopportune times. For example, the aforementioned Associated Press Tweet referencing the Sandy Hook story that went live at 9:53AM may have been timestamped for 11:53AM or sometime thereafter when more information had been disclosed by law enforcement authorities. Likewise the Boston Globe tweet timestamped for 12:53PM referencing the bomb’s detonation may have been set at a time before Boston police rescheduled such a drill.

Conclusion

The US government and its private sector partners have developed a complex, pyramid-like communication system, the ostensible purpose of which is to “protect life and property.” To some degree this may be true.. Yet it is also no doubt capable of essentially generating traumatic events in association with broadcast and social media outlets, and even health care providers to exert rapid influence over the body politic.

A greater understanding of IPAWS and Digital EAS and the rationales guiding such strategic frameworks can place Tucson, Aurora, Sandy Hook, Boston, and probable future mass casualty events in an entirely different light. Questions concerning, for example, why common first responder-emergency management protocols were so seriously breached at Newtown and Boston, or why government officials in Connecticut have become so tight-fisted with basic crime-related evidence pertaining to Sandy Hook, may be explained through a broader critical perspective.

The US government has the demonstrable means and motives to develop and carry out mass casualty events for larger political ends, and historically it has exhibited little compunction in proceeding with such measures. Indeed, in addition to Operation Gladio, in the verifiable plans for Operation Northwoods and incidents such as Tonkin Gulf or the sinking of the USS Liberty American military and political leaders have demonstrated their capacity to undermine and deceive the public in order to further what are frequently harmful and disastrous policy agendas. Much like the case with 9/11, interrogation and analysis focusing on government culpability in such maneuvers will not be entertained in privately-owned mainstream media outlets. This is now even more so the case as such media have become an essential element of the emergency response and gradated communication-public relations mechanism.

The recent instances of mass traumatization realized through the communication networks now intertwined with everyday existence via social media also involve social conditioning toward a perpetual sense of mortal danger and crisis. This is already a common life experience for the inhabitants of countries occupied by US military or proxy forces, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Palestine. Such terror is similarly felt in Pakistan, Yemen and other countries routinely terrorized by US drones.

In the homeland the trauma is administered in a more subtle fashion. The US public would be well served to recognize that it likely has more in common with those foreign peoples than it does with its own government and the transnational corporations that government so dutifully serves. Consenting to such manufactured realities provides the illusion of security while further rationalizing the militarized police state at home and abroad.

Notes

[1] Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era, New York: Viking, 1970, 59, 60.

[2] Armand Mattelart, The Globalization of Surveillance: The Origin of the Securitarian Order, trans. by Susan Gruenheck Taponier and James A. Cohen, Cambridge: Polity, 2010.

[3] With regard to gun control specifically, the poorly investigated and dubious circumstance surrounding the Dunblane Scotland school massacre and Port Arthur Australia mass shooting—both occurring in the spring of 1996—suggest events that were intended to prompt sufficient public sentiment and calls to further restrict gun ownership.

[4] US President George W. Bush Executive Order 13407: Public Alert and Warning System (PDF), June 26, 2006.

[10] The interview portion including Vance and Llorda is no longer available on the Dart Center’s Sandy Hook and Beyond webpage, http://dartcenter.org/content/symposium-sandy-hook-and-beyond, last checked July 2, 2013.

[11] Andy Carvin is NPR’s senior strategist for social media and “online communities.”Carvin was also an early advocate of citizen journalism’s mobile phone podcasting—what he terms “mobcasting.” “Andy Carvin,” Wikipedia, accessed June 16, 2013.

[14]“Official With Knowledge of Sandy Hook Shooting Says 27 Dead, Including 18 Children,” Associated Press, December 14, 2012. In March this author contacted Newtown Bee Associate Editor Shannon Hicks to inquire whether the numerous photographs she claims to have taken in the parking lot of Sandy Hook Elementary as police arrived would be shared with law enforcement or be made publicly available. “The photos I took on 12/14 have not been shared with anyone,” Hicks said in response. “We have no plans to do so, either.” It seems especially unusual that such important evidence related to the most serious mass shooting in the country’s history would not have been turned over immediately to law enforcement. If such photos were taken as Hicks claims and in fact exist, would they reveal visual proof of extensive media preparation and thus potential foreknowledge? Shannon Hicks to James Tracy, March 25, 2013, email in possession of author.

[16] Ibid. When this author addressed such inconsistencies in the official Sandy Hook narrative in the weeks following the event the reaction by major news outlets was strongly condemnatory. Yet very few reports and commentaries seriously considered the evidence presented.

26 thoughts on “Mass Traumatization and the Body Politic”

The first proof of any conspiracy theory is how fast they get the information on the media. In real events, it takes time for the facts to unfold. When events are manufactured, the name, date, places are all available in nanoseconds. Then 2nd way, is how the information is distributed, same pictures, same story to all media outlets and the then the 3rd is how fast they destroy the evidence.

It seems to me that any communication network capable of reaching every electronic media device is also capable of not only tracking them all but also of loading unwanted software on your device and maybe blocking any communications to it if the administrators so desire. It certainly has the capability of intercepting all communications – because something has to be loaded on your device for them to reach them all. (Without that, they’d have to communicate with you via your Hotmail account or through your cell provider.)

The points made in the post about tweets and other news items coming out ‘too soon’ for realistic jounalist responses is an important one. Its things like that which give away conspiracies. Loose lips sink ships, and a response ahead of time indicates planning.

I’m being a bit naive as ‘The Georgia Guide Stones’ are specific and to the point.
Book readers (history) begin to realize that ‘all roads “DO” lead to Rome’ while doctrines of ‘religion’ emphasize love and obedience.
The contrary view only proves itself as ‘the underground’ well after the blood flows in the streets.

Give Jim Fetzer credit as he understands that a new operation has begun, initiated by the government to fulfill the considered estimation (by some elitist) that many good and intelligent people are going to die.http://www.veteranstoday.com/

A point that ought to be considered; we are all in the grip of a profound understanding. Many have known as they are fleeing while others, are waiting for the shoe to drop.

I refer to a protégée of Ezra Pound…’After 40 years of patient study of the crises which faces humanity, I arrived at a very simple conclusion–all conspiracies are Satanic!……..The politician offers to defend you against your enemies, so that he can deliver you to your ultimate enemy–Satan.’–Eustace Mullins (Curse of Canaan, Preface)

Really makes you reassess PBS and NPR. Since the government, by design, legislated against funding for these alternative news outlets, you can chart their slide into the MSM model. Some show hosts strive bravely to maintain the persona of a professional; if you have been a faithful listener, you can almost tell who is struggling perhaps with bouts of conscience.

“Frontline” was always a touchstone of authentic journalism. To find such shoddy reportage regard Sandy Hook is very disheartening. But I am not shocked. Just disappointed.

I just posted the link to the geoeningeering and chemtrails video on a well-known progressive blog. It will be interesting to see if I get any further comments there–pro or con. I sent the link to a good friend and told her to pass it on–please! She wrote back that she did but she doubted anyone would take the time to view it. People are just too busy to think about saving the earth or researching GMO food or poisonous vaccinations for their children.

So it goes…anyway, have a safe and happy Fourth of July, my fellow Americans.

Regarding the symposium held at Columbia University, “Sandy Hook and Beyond,” it would be interesting to learn the official “explanation” for how Tweets concerning the Sandy Hook event were posted prior to the event occurring.

Notably, Jillian Soto, tweeted to her followers at 8:04 AM on Dec. 14th, 2012: “Everyone please keep my sister in your prays [sic] her school just had a shooting and we haven’t heard from her yet.”

In regard to Boston, it has been pointed out the remarkable resemblance reality-celebrity Lauren Drain has to Krystle Campbell. Ms. Drain visited Boston in April and posted a photo of herself at the Boston Red Sox game. It appears trauma is inflicted not just as “Terrorism” but also in the pop-culture horror story du jour.

As to pop culture, why were Carole King and James Taylor at the so called victims’ benefit? Didn’t they have any search capabilities to know if the event was legitimate or not? Neither one is stupid. Or are they just willing to do anything to sell a few CDs?

I can not speak to the issue of whether Carole King and James Taylor performed at the victim’s benefit just to sell “a few CDs.” I like to think they did it to be kind and generous.

It wasn’t too long ago that I watched the nightly news and believe everything was verified and authentic. It never occurred to me that it wouldn’t be. I imagine many people unquestionably accept what is broadcast across the networks.

Carole King knows enough about the wild horses to oppose the government position – the BLM, so she can’t do a modicum of research about the Tsarnaevs and Boston or even find this blog? And James likes Obama, so he’s one of the people in the public eye who are very strange in his support for the technocrat puppet pres. It does sell CDs to go with the dumbed-down public.

I believe there is a kind of mental taser effect going on. Kind of the shock a dog or cow gets when trying to move out of its designated territory. If you have forgotten an event, a new one delivers a fresh charge as the two are linked, however loosely. I keep thinking of Ayn Rand’s send-up of propaganda in one of her novels in which every single media outlet references a story about crushing individuality “The Gallant Gallstone.” 9/11 is ours. It keeps being stimulated to create pain.

When the firefighters died in Arizona, they were not allowed their own sacred moment of mourning. Governor Jan Brewer had to remind us of how they (almost) measured up to the 9/11 firefighters. The purpose was not to praise her own state’s protectors, but to re-open a wound and to reify the so-called cause behind that event. In the fire event, you had lightning, which the ancients believed came from the gods. Evidently terror comes from the gods too, and we need a security priesthood to protect us (even while they are abusing us every which way from Sunday).

I found this article difficult to read. I listened to it instead, using a reader app. It was easier for me to absorb that way. Recently I listened to “Industrial Society and Its Future” by the tragic Ted Kaczynski: http://www.davesag.com/unabomber/.

Where Kaczynski writes to explain the problem of industrial society and guide people toward solving it, he does not write to defend his violence or encourage others to adopt a violent solution. When we think of Kaczynski, brilliant and voluntarily poor and isolated, busy at home, we cannot help but compare him to our leaders of “the war on terror” their kill lists and drone strikes and ask ourselves – what’s the difference? Both have identified a problem and both have chosen a violent solution to it – In my view — both are wrong. The problems are legitimate but their solutions are wrong. The “as if” violence of Sandy Hook and Boston are wrong. Yes, the deception of violence is wrong too.

I am reminded of Orwell’s Winston remembering his mother, his sickly baby sister, himself a child, sharing or not sharing a bit of candy, him grabbing it all and bolting for the door, his mother calling after him, his sad pleasure eating it, alone on the street several hours after, returning home and finding them gone – her love, gone. Your writing James, your article here, should mollify those who complained your blog was not “academic”. Surely, it will weed out the light-weights. It is a fine article that provides ample evidence justifying our skepticism generally.

I have been thinking recently about why the press and state and local government functionaries so eagerly conspire with the federal government to perpetrate these traumatic hoaxes–as well as why the crisis actors are not ashamed to participate. It strikes me that they are all named Winston Smith.

In 1984, there is the “inner party,” an infinitesimally small number of people; everyone else in the world is unlikely to ever come in contact with them. There is the “outer party,” the small percentage of people who make the system run, of whom Winston Smith is representative. And the vast majority, the “proles,” who are not considered actually human by party members.

Winston Smith’s job in the book is to rewrite history as the past is reconstructed by higher authorities; one of his acquaintances has the job of removing words from the vocabulary, so as to eventually render “though crime” impossible. These people do not question any of this (in fact, the word-destroyer is positively enthusiastic about his specialty); it is how the system is, and how it should be, so far as they can imagine. These are the tasks that people of their class perform; they maintain the system because they are privileged to be allowed that task in life. It’s not a comfortable life, but they know of nothing better, and it’s infinitely better than the life of a prole (so far as they have been trained to believe), and they could not imagine being cast down to the status of a prole.

The difference with the book and our condition is that our media people, as opposed to the bureaucrats and state and local functionaries, can actually catch glimpses of the “inner party” of our system–the Bill Gates, Jon Corzine, Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon types, not to mention the Madonna and Tom Cruise contingent. They might even get to interview them, and if they rise sufficiently in the business, they’ll find themselves at the same events these people attend. They can even consider themselves one of them at a certain point. Bill O’Reilly loves to be invited to the Christmas party at the White House, though he insists he’s a man of the people; we all just laugh at that schtick.

Now, those who remember what I’ve written here before will recall that I believe the powers of darkness are unnamed, just as are the men who host the satanic gatherings in the movie Eyes Wide Shut. Compared to the “inner party,” the ones who truly shape the future, Bill Gates and Dick Cheney are just dudes who are high up in the “outer party.” But that does not reduce the seductiveness of being privileged to maintain the system; indeed, the reporters who carry the water at Sandy Hook and Boston have no idea that the men depicted in Eyes Wide Shut even exist. They actually believe the bullshit they are paid to sell.

It still amazes me that people still look at that movie as being Kubrick’s tale of a voyeurism, fantasy and adventure. The only voyeuristic aspect of it, was the director’s reveal about who’s really in charge, what they get up to and who their master is.

Welcome to Prism.
A new era in deception and mind control. A by product of the Cold War. Starting with the 9/11 mega ritual, Islamic Fundamentalism and the subsequent War On Terror, continued through to the reality warping, propaganda based stylised events we have recently seen.
All the while an omnipresent, all powerful surveillance machine knows and tracks your every move.
Prism Planet?

The fireworks are packed away until the new year is hailed come January, 2014. And the unctuous patriotic phrases will be enough to keep the American population puttering along til then. Because our culture is based on invention and fabrication.

At the celebration, another Fourth of July on the Washington Capital Mall, we were treated to pop songs, celebrity performances guaranteed to spark your love of country. The knitting of film, Broadway, CDs, TV was seamless, produced by professionals down the line. So much so, you almost forget it’s all entertainment–where history, fact and fiction, meld with little substance to sustain the illusion. That is, if you are not susceptable to the Hollywood version of reality. And who were honored with loud applause? The Boston Marathon first responders, linked with the wounded veterans of foreign wars. Slick, very slick. And very sad.

Heck! and I really do love “Sweet Caroline,” sung by Neil Diamond. That revved up the crowd; I couldn’t help myself. I sang along. Because some things are just pure Americana and can’t be purged by machinations of the DHS.

They are purposely being blatantly sloppy with their productions in order to suck up the remaining population that still can perceive reality into their fear mongering machine. It seemed the script for SH was telling – they kept saying live from the scene while repeating the same few minutes of video, the school is in lockdown, the school is now evacuated, with no evidence and it goes on and on. Weather manipulation is another tactic, get in line with rest of the sheep, or we can devastate your life with destruction. All the while denying this weapon exists even though there is abundant evidence that is does. Talk with anyone who will listen, we need to wake up! http://www.naturalnews.com/041072_militarized_police_law_enforcement_paramilitary_training.html

One columnist noted that mass shootings went up so much under this administration that it could be argued that it is part of the administration’s “legacy.” Actually, mass shootings only started to become epidemic after the communications systems were forced into digital mode, which was circa 2009-2010. After that event, the shootings ran off the charts. Now, these two events are “co-incidental” in that they were contemporaneous phenomena; however, the “co-incidental” nature of the two events (digitized communications/mass shootings) are either “co-incidental” by accident OR design. They will be “co-incidental” either way due to their close proximity in time. Just calling something “co-incidental” does NOT make it the result of random or accidental events. I get tired of “coincidence” become a code word for accident, which it is not. It’s use in this manner is an excuse for not thinking.

Oh, I meant also to correct your use of the verb “detonated” in reference to the Boston Marathon Bombs. The authorities informed us that the bombs were made with black powder, which was supposed to explain the smoke. But black powder does NOT “detonate.”

Black powder is classified as a “low explosive,” meaning its detonation velocity is less than about 100 yards per second. “High explosives” like dynamite have a velocity of detonation greater than 1,000 yards per second.

By velocity
Low explosives
Low explosives are compounds where the rate of decomposition proceeds through the material at less than the speed of sound. The decomposition is propagated by a flame front (deflagration) which travels much more slowly through the explosive material than a shock wave of a high explosive. Under normal conditions, low explosives undergo deflagration at rates that vary from a few centimeters per second to approximately 400 metres per second. It is possible for them to deflagrate very quickly, producing an effect similar to a detonation. This can happen under higher pressure or temperature, which usually occurs when ignited in a confined space.
A low explosive is usually a mixture of a combustible substance and an oxidant that decomposes rapidly (deflagration); however, they burn more slowly than a high explosive, which has an extremely fast burn rate.
Low explosives are normally employed as propellants. Included in this group are gunpowders and light pyrotechnics, such as flares and fireworks, but can replace high explosives in certain applications, see gas pressure blasting.
High explosives
High explosives are explosive materials that detonate, meaning that the explosive shock front passes through the material at a supersonic speed. High explosives detonate with explosive velocity ranging from 3 to 9 km/s. They are normally employed in mining, demolition, and military applications. They can be divided into two explosives classes differentiated by sensitivity: primary explosive and secondary explosive. The term high explosive is in contrast to the term low explosive, which explodes (deflagrates) at a lower rate.
Explosive materials may be categorized by the speed at which they expand. Materials that detonate (explode faster than the speed of sound) are said to be “high explosives” and materials that deflagrate are said to be “low explosives”. Explosives may also be categorized by their sensitivity. Sensitive materials that can be initiated by a relatively small amount of heat or pressure are primary explosives and materials that are relatively insensitive are secondary or tertiary explosives.

In case the posting of the technical information about black powder has eluded attention, black powder lacks the velocity to be a high explosive capable of inflicting traumatic amputations such as those displayed at Boston. There is no shock wave that exceeds the speed of sound when black powder is ignited. I could not understand why the “officials” claimed the bombs were black powder, except as a way to explain the smokescreen created, yet it was still a poor choice.

These people are really not too good at this sort of thing and should really rethink the wisdom of continuing to employ such operations. They do not improve any with experience, either. The photographic and video manipulations are hideously bad–every time. People are using software such as Foto Forensics to rip them apart, yet the flaws are always right up front at the very start.

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Originally posted on The PPJ Gazette: Marti Oakley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After a lifetime of voting with Democrats, this year I marked the box for a Republican. I think it says something about how politicians view the general public when someone with your history can even campaign for an office, much less think they should actually get…

Originally posted on ACADEME BLOG: In 2012, I proposed the term ‘breitbarting’ with a narrower definition than, I think, the word deserves today. At that time, I limited it to what Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe proved so skilled at doing. They designed strategies of interview, editing and presentation to make a predetermined point (not…

Originally posted on Socio-Economics History Blog: Published on Nov 18, 2016 Lindsey Bruce for Liberty Writers reports, This is a perfect example of why only 6% of Americans trust the liberal media. Democrats went crazy when Trump won the election last week. They took to the streets and rioted like animals. Read More/Source/Credit(FAIR USE): –…

Originally posted on The Militant Negro™: The man who lived by the sea he heard in the echo of shells his higher destiny with quiver and stride licking waves he set sail to Italy ensuring his mind rise above that of oppressed under tyranical yoke he is a mystery perhaps shrouded in mist I hear…

Originally posted on peoples trust toronto: Following last week’s dissonance-destroying victory for Donald Trump, San Francisco teachers are being offered a ‘Donald Trump lesson plan’ to “help students understand the election,” but, as NBCBayArea reports, opponents counter that it is leftist propaganda meant to scare children about the incoming president. Fakhra Shah, a teacher at…

Originally posted on YOUR PERCEPTION IS NOT REALITY: ? This is how out of touch with the people the elitist’s are. They probably have a 6k cellphone bill and thus think relative to that. There was a similar example in the past although I don’t remember the details where a politician remarked about an ‘normal…

By James F. Tracy (Originally published April 5, 2016) Police Lack Documentation of Lenny and Veronique Pozners’ Charges Against James Tracy On December 10, 2015 “Lenny and Veronique Pozner,” parents of Noah Pozner who allegedly perished in the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook School massacre event, penned an incendiary article published by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. […]